Programming

Microbit: easier with extensions

The BBC Microbit is a wonderful introduction to both programming and electronics, but MakeCode’s Blocks make some ideas quite hard to express.

Sorting madness

I know me whinging on about programming the site is starting to look like a recurring theme here — I promise that once I’ve got this problem out the way, that’s it for a good long while.

I’m trying to sort posts for the forums by latest activity. That bit works fine — but I also

Using JavaScript Correctly

There are too many mainstream sites that don’t understand the most important rule of the internet: If you’re going to make something, it should work in all scenarios.

Creating Extracts with REGEX

I’m going to show you how you can use a regular expression to pull out fixed length extracts from HTML.

AJAX search with MS Live and mootools

Add search to your website with some frontend programming

URLRewritingNet .* DefaultPage Hack

I think I’ve just cured the disease that’s been ailing me ever since I started using URLRewritingNet and just in case anyone is being effected the same way, I have the code that will allow you to fix the problem.

CSS Should Be Better

CSS, albeit old, is an amazing breakthrough in the way we can separate markup from how things are displayed.

The Net Makes For Lazy Game Dev

The modern trend of releases unfinished, untested games is getting old, but I fear it’s here to stay.

Paging In SQL

Only get the records you need. Learn to page though them with SQL.

Getting the ISP from the IP

A Visual Basic .NET approach to resolving an ISP through WHOIS

Getting The Real IP of Your Users

There are a lot of sites around the internet that try and get your IP address. Most of their reasons are legitimate

Pointers in C

C is a pretty easy language to understand but there is one topic that scares the daylights out of beginners: pointers.